Raheelah Ahmad

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Raheelah Ahmad is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Raheelah Ahmad has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in General Health Professions, 37 papers in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and 12 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Raheelah Ahmad's work include Antibiotic Use and Resistance (37 papers), Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (18 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (12 papers). Raheelah Ahmad is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Use and Resistance (37 papers), Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (18 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (12 papers). Raheelah Ahmad collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Raheelah Ahmad's co-authors include Alison Holmes, Timothy M. Rawson, Gabriel Birgand, Enrique Castro‐Sánchez, Esmita Charani, Pantelis Georgiou, François-Xavier Lescure, Nathan Peiffer‐Smadja, Luke Moore and Rifat Atun and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Raheelah Ahmad

73 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An analysis of existing national action plans for antimicrobial resistance—gaps and opportunities in strategies optimising antibiotic use in human populations

2023 113 citations Esmita Charani, Marc Mendelson et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raheelah Ahmad United Kingdom	23	818	649	294	263	223	79	2.0k
Enrique Castro‐Sánchez United Kingdom	31	1.4k 1.7×	1.2k 1.9×	538 1.8×	393 1.5×	278 1.2×	127	3.2k
Zikria Saleem Pakistan	25	923 1.1×	395 0.6×	385 1.3×	192 0.7×	315 1.4×	122	1.9k
Sarah Tonkin‐Crine United Kingdom	28	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	424 1.4×	208 0.8×	64 0.3×	114	2.3k
Carolyn Tarrant United Kingdom	33	518 0.6×	1.5k 2.3×	301 1.0×	174 0.7×	90 0.4×	115	3.2k
Fátima Roque Portugal	21	740 0.9×	564 0.9×	299 1.0×	106 0.4×	94 0.4×	102	1.9k
Michael Scott United Kingdom	27	513 0.6×	305 0.5×	444 1.5×	309 1.2×	166 0.7×	95	2.5k
Fahad Saleem Malaysia	33	706 0.9×	676 1.0×	580 2.0×	247 0.9×	170 0.8×	235	3.5k
Maciek Godycki-Ćwirko Poland	26	691 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	851 2.9×	136 0.5×	127 0.6×	98	3.5k
Jochen Cals Netherlands	30	1.3k 1.6×	1.0k 1.5×	1.1k 3.7×	225 0.9×	118 0.5×	181	3.6k
Yu Fang China	27	855 1.0×	401 0.6×	516 1.8×	136 0.5×	191 0.9×	171	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raheelah Ahmad

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Botwe, Benard Ohene, William K. Antwi, Theophilus N. Akudjedu, et al.. (2025). Challenges and strategies for retaining Africa’s radiography workforce in the continent amidst a competitive global market: Insights from 17 countries. Radiography. 31(4). 103001–103001.

Drobniewski, Francis, et al.. (2025). Factors influencing vaccine hesitancy among United Kingdom adolescents in a senior high school environment and actions to address it. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 21(1). 2475599–2475599. 1 indexed citations

Mbamalu, Oluchi, Vrinda Nampoothiri, Candice Bonaconsa, et al.. (2023). A survey of patient and public perceptions and awareness of SARS-CoV-2-related risks among participants in India and South Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 3(7). e0001078–e0001078. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Nina, et al.. (2022). Using system dynamics modelling to assess the economic efficiency of innovations in the public sector - a systematic review. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263299–e0263299. 13 indexed citations

Mbamalu, Oluchi, Vrinda Nampoothiri, Candice Bonaconsa, et al.. (2022). Survey of healthcare worker perceptions of changes in infection control and antimicrobial stewardship practices in India and South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. IJID Regions. 6. 90–98. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Nina, Timothy M. Rawson, Raheelah Ahmad, et al.. (2021). A Surveillance Framework for Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance in Acute Care in the Context of COVID-19: A Rapid Literature Review and Expert Consensus. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Peiffer‐Smadja, Nathan, Armel Poda, Abdoul–Salam Ouédraogo, et al.. (2020). Paving the Way for the Implementation of a Decision Support System for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care in West Africa: Preimplementation and Co-Design Workshop With Physicians. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(7). e17940–e17940. 16 indexed citations

Rawson, Timothy M., Damien Ming, Raheelah Ahmad, Luke Moore, & Alison Holmes. (2020). Antimicrobial use, drug-resistant infections and COVID-19. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(8). 409–410. 198 indexed citations

Zingg, Walter, Julie Storr, Benjamin J. Park, et al.. (2019). Implementation research for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; 2017 Geneva infection prevention and control (IPC)-think tank (part 1). Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 8(1). 87–87. 30 indexed citations

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Zingg, Walter, Benjamin J. Park, Julie Storr, et al.. (2019). Technology for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; 2017 Geneva IPC-Think Tank (Part 2). Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 8(1). 83–83. 8 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Raheelah, et al.. (2018). Investigating the impact of poverty on colonization and infection with drug-resistant organisms in humans: a systematic review. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 7(1). 76–76. 89 indexed citations

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Kunisawa, Susumu, Nichola R. Naylor, K Yamashita, et al.. (2018). Comparison of national strategies to reduce meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Japan and England. Journal of Hospital Infection. 100(3). 280–298. 12 indexed citations

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Birgand, Gabriel, Enrique Castro‐Sánchez, Sonja Hansen, et al.. (2018). Comparison of governance approaches for the control of antimicrobial resistance: Analysis of three European countries. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 7(1). 28–28. 45 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Raheelah, et al.. (2017). Capacity of English NHS hospitals to monitor quality in infection prevention and control using a new European framework: a multilevel qualitative analysis. BMJ Open. 7(1). e012520–e012520. 6 indexed citations

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Rawson, Timothy M., Luke Moore, Bernard Hernandez, et al.. (2016). Patient engagement with infection management in secondary care: a qualitative investigation of current experiences. BMJ Open. 6(10). e011040–e011040. 19 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Raheelah, Enrique Castro‐Sánchez, Fran Husson, et al.. (2015). Defining the user role in infection control. Journal of Hospital Infection. 92(4). 321–327. 11 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Raheelah, Yiannis Kyratsis, & Alison Holmes. (2012). When the user is not the chooser: learning from stakeholder involvement in technology adoption decisions in infection control. Journal of Hospital Infection. 81(3). 163–168. 28 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Rachel, Florence Baingana, Raheelah Ahmad, David McDaid, & Rifat Atun. (2011). Mental health and the global agenda: core conceptual issues.. PubMed. 8(2). 69–82. 34 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Rachel, Florence Baingana, Raheelah Ahmad, David McDaid, & Rifat Atun. (2011). International and national policy challenges in mental health.. PubMed. 8(2). 101–14. 26 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Rachel, Florence Baingana, Raheelah Ahmad, David McDaid, & Rifat Atun. (2011). Scaling up mental health services: where would the money come from?. PubMed. 8(2). 83–6. 2 indexed citations

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